That is an article from a Next Gen magazine. Would be interesting to see the original date attached to it. I remember reading it with a sinking feeling. By the time i had got my hands on an actual 3DO here in West OZ the system was already dead.

"Mr. Burk: (...) SEGA was very interested in buying our M2 chip for their next console. But when we got the first prototype chips back from the fab, they were missing a layer of metal. Some engineer at the fab left a line out of a script. This killed all the on-chip RAMs including the graphics texture RAM and the DSP RAM. So, the demos we showed to SEGA did not have any textures and ran very slow. The next chip worked fine but it was too late."